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Adult Residential Facility  Levels of Care & Rates


The Regional Center vendors  with you  to provide a  specific level of  residential care (levels refer to facilities not residents).  The higher the level the more care and supervision is required.  The staffing level of  a level 4i is considerably more than the staffing required for  a level 2.  Facilities levels  4a and above will require you to hire the services of a  behavioral management specialist who  creates a behavior plan for each client. The levels of care are as follows:

Level 1
Limited care and supervision for persons with self-care skills and no behavior problems.

Level 2
Care, supervision and incidental training for persons with some self-care skills and no major behavior problems.

Level 3
Care, supervision and ongoing training for persons with significant deficits in self-help skills, and/or some limitations in physical coordination and mobility, and/or disruptive or self-injurious behavior.

Level 4
Care, supervision and professionally supervised training for persons with deficits in self-help skills, and/or severe impairment in physical coordination and mobility, and/or severely disruptive or self-injurious behavior.

Level 4
Level 4 is subdivided into Levels 4A through 4I in which staffing levels are increased to correspond to the escalating severity of disability level.

You can view the complete detail on staffing levels by clicking on Title 17 Residential Service Levels.  For a summary see the table below.

Table of Staffing Requirements by Facility Level:

                    

Facility Rates

Regional Centers set the rate of reimbursement for residential services. 

Table of Facility Service  Monthly Rates by Service Level

 

Level
Rates
 
1 $898  
2 $1,745 Owner Operated  (licensee lives in the facility)
2 $1,961 Staff Operated
3 $2,006 Owner Operated
3 $2,287 Staff Operated
4A $3,941 Requires Behavior Consultant
4B $3,134 Requires Behavior Consultant
4C $3,326 Requires Behavior Consultant
4D $3,567 Requires Behavior Consultant
4E $3,825 Requires Behavior Consultant
4F $4,082 Requires Behavior Consultant
4G $4,386 Requires Behavior Consultant

4H

$4,707 Requires Behavior Consultant

 

Regional Center Vendor
 
To become vendored with Regional Center you must attend an orientation at their local office, write a letter of intent and prepare a program design based on the principles of normalization.  The Regional Center program design is different from  the Community Care license application.  

The Program Design requirements are specified in Title 17 and  published by Department of Developmental Services.   Most  Regional Centers develop their own  requirements for how they want the program design prepared. Contact your Regional Center to request their current Program Design requirements.  Click her for information on obtaining assistance with your Regional Center Program design.  Students enrolled in our administrator course receive  assistance in how to navigate the Regional Center system to become vendored (including sample letters of intent).